“A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.”
    
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      “But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses”
    
― A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck
  ― A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck
      “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
    
― Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
  ― Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
Xpensive’s 2024 Year in Books
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